Hypocritical Left Uses Violent Rhetoric Against Tea Party

August 4, 2011 4 Comments

Just a few months ago when Rep. Giffords was shot by a loner gunman the left immediately blamed “violent” right-wing rhetoric for the shooting. Never mind of course that the gunman had no political motivation. Sarah Palin was the left’s favorite target because of a fundraising ploy in which Palin put various Democrat Congressmen in her ‘cross-hairs.’ In other words, Mrs. Palin was targeting certain Democrat Congressmen for defeat in the 2010 election. The left was enraged at the ‘violent’ nature of the rhetoric and took the Giffords shooting as a chance to attack Sarah Palin.

Fast forward this week and what is the left-wing line about the debt ceiling negotiations? Vice President Joe Biden called the Tea Party ‘terrorists.” His office denies this but it is undisputed that Rep. Mike Doyle alleged that his party “negotiated with terrorists” and that “this small group of terrorists have made it impossible to spend any money.” I surely hope the Tea Party is preventing further spending, but it is outrageous to call us terrorists.

Over at the New York Times, Joe Nocera claims that the Tea Party is waging a “war on America.” He declares “you know what they say: Never negotiate with terrorists.” Thomas Friedman called the Tea Party the “Hezbollah faction” of the GOP. Meanwhile Maureen Dowd has a glowing review of Democrats who declare the Tea Party to be “the Republican Taliban wing.”

Should we keep going? Politico ran an op-ed by Martin Frost titled “The Tea Party Taliban.” They also ran a piece by William Yeomans titled “The Tea Party’s Terrorist Tactics.” Margaret Carlson claims the Tea Party is a “nihilist caucus” who have strapped explosives on the Capitol. There are dozens of other examples from local newspapers around the country of leftists attacking the Tea Party by accusing them of being terrorists.

Keep in mind of course if the right ever accused Obama of being a terrorist the left would first call us racists then they would accuse us of hating Muslims. When they attack conservatives as being terrorists or part of terrorist Muslim groups it’s perfectly acceptable. Rather then engage in a battle of ideas with conservatives, the left would rather slander the right and act like spoiled school yard bullies.

Keep in mind, the Democrats won the debt ceiling debate. There aren’t any real cuts. Yet the far left is enraged, largely because they know Obama looked like a fool during most of the negotiations. In the end, they got bill that shuts out conservatives, raises the debt ceiling and doesn’t actually cut anything. You wouldn’t know that listening to these people whine about the Tea Party terrorists or the Hezbollah wing of the Republican Party.

The far left has two reasons for attacking the Tea Party in this manner. First, the left is furious that the debate was controlled by the Tea Party. Second, they’re setting up the Tea Party for when the economy gets worse. They’re going to blame the debt ceiling deal for the economy falling into a double dip recession, which of course will have nothing to do with a couple billion in cuts. Never mind of course that the debt ceiling bill was written by Senate Democrats.

Truth doesn’t matter with these people, all that matters is slandering opponents. It’s why they spent a month attacking conservatives after Rep. Giffords was shot even though the shooter wasn’t a conservative. They called for civility and an end to violent rhetoric by conservatives. Just six months later they’re calling conservatives terrorists and nihilists who are part of Taliban and Hezbollah factions of the Republican Party. So much for civility, so much for non-violent public discourse. On the left, the ends justify the means even if they’re hypocritical. That is the state of public discourse in America.  

 

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Ruthless Left-Wing Press Seeks To Destroy Sarah Palin

June 11, 2011 Leave a comment

The media freak out over Sarah Palin continues. In fact, it’s really not a freak out but a coordinated destruction attempt. Over Memorial Day weekend the media whined and complained because Mrs. Palin’s didn’t give them the itinerary for her bus tour to nowhere. Now the media sharks are chomping at the bit over a statement made about Paul Revere which may or may not be true. The sharks are now circling over 24,000 pages worth of emails from Palin’s time as Governor of Alaska. Sane people are left wondering why the media cares so much about a woman who isn’t even running for office. Conservatives are left wishing the media would spend this much time scrutinizing Mitt Romney.

Sarah Palin made a few comments about Paul Revere warning the British during his famous ride. She’s technically right as Revere had been captured by the British and informed them of troop movements. But whether Mrs. Palin is right or wrong is really irrelevant to this issue. NBC Nightly News spent three nights discussing Mrs. Palin’s statement. Countless other media outlets obsessed over her comments for days on end as well. Mind you these are media outlets that either ignored or wrote off as harmless Obama’s declaration that he had been to 57 states during the 2008 campaign. Mrs. Palin isn’t running for office, so why exactly does the media care whether she got the Paul Revere story right or wrong? Even if she ends up running for President, why are they so focused on Sarah Palin as opposed to any of the other GOP candidates?

Yesterday Alaska released thousands of pages worth of emails Palin had sent as Governor of the state. The Washington Post asked readers to help them sift through the emails to dig up dirt. Some 30+ journalists went through the emails themselves yesterday, all looking for dirt. So far the worst they can come up with is that she used the term “sheesh” in one of her emails.

The emails are public record and I don’t have a problem with a FOIA request seeking them. What I have a problem with is the entire media salivating over the emails, desperate to find the smoking gun that will ultimately destroy Sarah Palin. Make no mistake, that is the goal here. Anything short of the total destruction of Sarah Palin would be a failure as far as these left-wing journalists are concerned.

The media wants to destroy this woman, why ought to be pretty obvious to any conservative. Much like black conservatives are ruthlessly attacked by the left-wing media (see: Clarence Thomas) so are conservative women. Sarah Palin happens to be the most prominent conservative woman out there and she’s the greatest threat to run for President and win. When and if Michelle Bachmann ever becomes a serious Presidential contender, the media will ruthlessly attack everything about her from her clothes, to her children to every statement she’s ever made. Like black conservatives and black Republicans, the left-wing media considers conservative women traitors to the cause. You see, like blacks, women are only allowed to hold one viewpoint and any deviation from orthodoxy is cause for ruthless attack.

The media fears Sarah Palin. They fear her ability to win the White House. That’s why they’re attacking her without mercy. How can these people pretend to be unbiased when they spend three days discussing an offhand remark about Paul Revere? How can they pretend to be unbiased when they gleefully ask readers to help them comb through 24,000 pages of emails from a former Governor of Alaska? They’re looking to destroy this woman because they fear her and they loathe her. She doesn’t worship at their feet, she doesn’t grovel to them and she has a connection with the American people that the fearful left-wing media doesn’t understand. While I still hope Palin doesn’t run for President, these outrageous attempts to destroy her by the media almost get me to the point where I hope she runs and wins just to spite them.

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Double Dip Recession Is Here; Media Whines About Palin

June 1, 2011 4 Comments

The economy remains the number one concern for most Americans. The job report for April seemed to indicate at least a little bit of a pick up in the economy. However, the May report isn’t going to be nearly as rosy. The private sector only added 38,000 jobs last month, substantially lower than the estimate of 175,000. Planned job cuts are up as well, eating away at nearly all of the job gains in May. The Government is expected to announce larger job increases but even there numbers fall substantially short of April’s gains. Manufacturing continues to slow.

It is clear that the Obama administration’s economic policy has been a failure. His command and control from the top has not stimulated private sector economic growth. The Stimulus package passed in 2009 completely failed to stimulate the economy. The administration’s Wall Street regulations have done nothing to protect American investors and have accomplished little more than slowing the economy. Obamacare has caused health insurance to skyrocket in price, many policies cost 20-30% more this year because of Obamacare regulations. That is up substantially from previous price increases.

Meanwhile at the direction of the administration the Federal Reserve is preparing for a third major printing of new money. Printing more money means the value of the dollar goes down, which means we can purchase less with the dollars we currently have. As a result oil is up over $100 again and gas prices are once again on the rise after a minor decrease over the last couple weeks. It seems clear that thanks to inflation and Fed money printing, high gas and food prices are here to stay. Leftists no doubt rejoice over these facts, the rest of us are left scrambling to feed our families and put gas in the tank.

The double dip recession that so many have talked about over the last year seems to be coming true. With a Presidential election coming up next year, we shouldn’t expect the mainstream media to talk much about the double dip recession under Obama’s watch. The media is to busy whining about not knowing where Sarah Palin’s next stop is (no kidding, the media claims that Palin not telling them where she’s going is “dangerous“) and accusing her of committing ghastly Federal crimes against the flag (no kidding again, MSNBC apparently believes she’s a Federal flag criminal) to report on the dire situation our economy is in. In ignoring the economy, the media is giving the President a pass while Americans struggle to make ends meet.

The left-wing press has spent the last two years calling Mrs. Palin a media whore, now they’re whining when she ignores them and won’t tell them where her next appearance is. While it’s amusing to watch, it isn’t really news. Especially so when the economy is falling apart. Mrs. Palin isn’t yet a Presidential candidate, when she becomes one then maybe it will matter which tourist attraction she’s at. Until then, it’s absurd to watch the media spend an inordinate amount of time on the Sarah Palin bus tour to nowhere. Americans are struggling to buy food, we have become, as Newt Gingrich noted, a food stamp nation under Obama. Gas has settled above $100/barrel and jobs aren’t being created by the private sector. Unemployment remains high. These are important issues, a former Alaskan Governor’s trip to the Statue of Liberty isn’t all that important in comparison.

President Obama has been an economic failure for the middle class. Food prices are up substantially, gas prices have more than doubled since he took office. Inflation is making the value of our hard earned dollars evaporate. Meanwhile the Federal debt  is over $14 trillion and we have a yearly deficit of over $1 trillion. Our nation cannot afford more of President Obama and his failed left-wing policies.

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Media Freaks Out Over Sarah Palin’s Bus Tour To Nowhere

May 31, 2011 Leave a comment

Sarah Palin has spent the last couple of days annoying the media with a seemingly endless bus tour to nowhere. Mrs. Palin has been taking her bus tour, unannounced, to various national historical sites such as Mt. Vernon and various DC monuments. The fact that there is no announced schedule and no purpose is confounding the media. Where she will show up next is anyone’s guess. Whether she’s running for President or not is open to speculation, which is probably what Mrs. Palin wants.

It’s enjoyable watching the media chase Mrs. Palin around and endlessly complain about her unconventional ways. If Mrs. Palin’s sole purpose in organizing this bus tour is to annoy the media, count me as a major supporter. But the fact is she isn’t just annoying the news media. She’s annoying the Republican Party as well as her potential base of supporters. If she isn’t running for President then she doesn’t owe a courtesy call the local party of each place she’s planning on visiting. But if she is running for President, why would she deny the local party and her local supporters the chance to meet her? This is the last group of people a Presidential candidate would want to annoy.

Not only is Mrs. Palin denying local supporters a chance to meet her or hear her speak, because there is no schedule for her bus tour, wild speculation about her next stop has come into play. Palin supporters gathered in Gettysburg believing that was the next stop on her tour. Those supporters left disappointed when she  never showed up. Rumor has it she’s planning on visiting the Liberty Bell. Whether she visits the bell or not remains to be seen, no doubt some of Mrs. Palin’s supporters will camp out there waiting to see if she arrives. If I were one of her supporters and spent all day waiting around for her, I would be less a supporter after having played the fool fruitlessly waiting around all day

No doubt this bus tour is unconventional and borderline bizarre. What is it about Sarah Palin that causes the entire media to follow her around and obsess over her every move? What is it about Mrs. Palin that causes an uproar in the entire Republican Party? There is no doubt that the left hates this woman, largely because they fear her ability to attract voters and win. Within the GOP, her unconventional ways ruffle a lot of feathers and she is, for better or worse, very much a Beltway outsider. Her strange and seemingly pointless bus tour to nowhere is likely causing panic in the Romney camp. Palin seems at this point the only potential candidate who can stop a Romney nomination.

My guess is that the bus tour to nowhere will end in Palin announcing one way or the other her intentions concerning the 2012 election. If Mrs. Palin is able to generate buzz and attract crowds despite not announcing any of her destinations, I think she takes that as a sign that she has to run for President. If her bus tour fizzles out I think she walks away declaring she was never running for President in the first place. In the meantime it ought to be fun watching the media drum up rumors about her next stop and generally act like teenage girls trying to discover the whereabouts of Justin Bieber. If this is the purpose of Mrs. Palin’s bus tour to nowhere, it has been a wild success.

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Sarah Palin Please Don’t Run For President

January 27, 2011 5 Comments

I like Sarah Palin. I find her amusing. I find her political analysis goes back and forth between superb and merely adequate. I find the rage she engenders on the left to be magnificent. Nothing pleases me more than watching the left go unhinged over a particular conservative. It means that conservative must be doing something right, otherwise the left would ignore them.

But as much as I like Palin, I do not think she should run for President. It isn’t that she wouldn’t make at least an adequate President. Surely she couldn’t be worse than the current occupant of the White House. Sarah Palin shouldn’t run because she can’t win. I understand that winning isn’t always the goal of running for high office. Often times candidates will run for President knowing they can’t win but seek instead to represent a certain viewpoint that is otherwise unrepresented in a race. Palin is not one of those candidates. There are plenty of conservatives who will run in 2012. Palin doesn’t need to be one of them.

While Palin’s barbs with the left and the left-wing media have been fun for those of us on the right, the fact is that Palin has hurt herself by engaging these people for the last two years. Sarah Palin is as polarizing a figure in American politics as President Obama. She’s arguably more polarizing than President George W. Bush. Her ‘blood libel’ line was good, but it did nothing but enrage the left and give them more ammunition against her. She had to know that when she said it. Those on the right didn’t have a problem with it but she needs moderates and independents to win. Those folks didn’t like ‘blood libel.’ Now she’s saying ‘wtf’ on Fox News. There’s something very unpresidential about a potential candidate saying ‘wtf’ on national television.

It is unlikely that Palin will win the GOP nomination. By running for the nomination she will split the conservative vote. The end result is that a moderate or liberal Republican is more likely to win the nomination. (read: Mitt Romney) Do we conservatives really like Palin so much that we’re willing to suffer with a candidate that none of us like just to see her run for the nomination? If she won the nomination, as a polarizing figure do we really want to risk the 2012 election with Sarah Palin? It would be a battle between two people with low approval ratings and high disapproval ratings. Why would we in the Republican Party set ourselves up for that kind of defeat?

Sarah Palin would be much better off staying off the campaign trail next year. She has a prime position within Republican circles. Her endorsement is worth something, she can be a star in the fundraising circuit. She can hold moderate Republicans feet to the fire and she can say whatever she pleases without having to worry about sounding Presidential. For the Republican Party, we would be better off if Sarah Palin didn’t run. We could rally around someone else just as conservative but less polarizing. We would have a better shot at beating the incumbent President. For conservatives, we would be better off because our votes wouldn’t be split between Palin and Huckabee. We would have a better shot at knocking off Romney.

Sarah Palin, please don’t run for President. For the sake of the country, our party and the conservative movement please don’t run in 2012.

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Left-wing Media Exercises Zero Caution When Attacking Sarah Palin, Tea Parties

January 10, 2011 Leave a comment

The media fallout from the Giffords shooting is nothing short of amazing. Is there any doubt the mainstream press harbors a left-wing bias? After the Ft. Hood shooting the media urged caution about blaming Muslims for the shooting. The fact is the shooter was a Muslim who shouted Allahu Akbar while shooting. But the media tells us to proceed with caution after that incident. Yet on Saturday the media outright blamed Sarah Palin and other conservatives for causing the Giffords assassination attempt. Where was the caution from the media? It doesn’t exist when they have a left-wing political agenda to push. Anything that makes the right-wing look bad, even if it isn’t true, is fair play according to the left-wing media.

In 2008 President Obama said about Republican attacks“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.” But of course it’s only Sarah Palin’s gun rhetoric that causes crazy people to shoot Congressmen. Mind you of course there is still no evidence that Loughner even heard Palin’s statement, much less used her statement as justification for his attack. In fact, since Palin was once part of government and since she ran for Vice President, it’s a safe bet that Loughner considered Palin part of the vast conspiracy to control minds through grammar. In other words, Loughner was a nutcase and political rhetoric of Sarah Palin and other mainstream folks played no role in his assassination attempt. But of course, the zero caution left-wing agenda driven media won’t bother to make such connections. It doesn’t serve their political goals.

As stated in my past post, Palin and conservative rhetoric had nothing to do with Jared Loughner’s lunatic shooting. Loughner believes the government controls grammar and is involved in mind control. He’s believed this for years, having confronted Rep. Giffords three years ago on the matter. Now we find out Loughner had a creepy occult shrine in his back yard. Complete with a skull, shriveled oranges, cerimonial candles and oddly a bag of potting soil. This scene suggests to me that Loughner is less motivated by actual political issues than he is by either is occult religious beliefs or his own lack of sanity. But of course, the media will continue to blame conservatives. If only they could discover he went to church once in his life they could blame Jesus Christ!

While the media is busy blaming Sarah Palin and conservatives for projecting violent imagery in their speech, it’s important to look at what the left has done in the past on this very subject. Michelle Malkin has put together an incredible list of violent or disturbing political statements or acts by left-wingers aimed at the right-wing. I don’t believe this is speech that should be banned. It may not be in the best taste and it may not be speech that I would engage in but it is speech that is protected by the Constitution. Furthermore, I would suggest that this speech doesn’t cause people to fly off the handle and gun down Congressmen or anyone else. It’s little more than charged rhetoric, albeit slightly more charged than anything you’ll see at a Tea Party rally or coming out of the mouth of Sarah Palin.

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The Left Attempts To Chill Conservative Free Speech

January 10, 2011 Leave a comment

As I’m sure everyone is aware Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was the victim of an assassination attempt on Saturday. The shooter, Jared Loughner, appears to be a mentally unstable lunatic with no serious political motivation. Loughner has been described as a left-wing pot smoker who may have been part of some micro-racist organization. According to videos he posted on You Tube, he appears to be obsessed with government mind control and government control over grammar. In short, Loughner is a lunatic.

Just an hour or two after word of the Giffords shooting hit the news the left began attacking Sarah Palin and other conservatives for heated political rhetoric that contained mildly violent imagery. Palin told Tea Partiers last year to not retreat but ‘lock and reload.’ Her message was clear, rather than retreat and accept defeat Tea Partiers should reload and prepare for the next election or next big political fight. But of course, her context is completely ignored by liberals who have an agenda.

There’s no doubt that political debate in this country is heated and contentious. People on both sides of the aisle make statements that contain violent imagery, though in context are not violent at all. Today liberals are using the Giffords shooting to advance an agenda aimed at silencing conservative speech. They may not attempt to regulate it via Federal law but they are attempting to create a chilling effect on free speech by associating conservative speech with this shooting. This isn’t the first time the left has done this, they did it after the Oklahoma City bombing. They accused conservatives and Christians of using charged language which then Caused Timothy McVeigh to go over the edge. In reality, McVeigh was an atheist who could hardly be described as conservative.

Statements made by conservatives during the 2010 election campaign had nothing to do with Loughner’s shooting rampage. This guy was a lunatic and had been for quite some time. There is no evidence he was influenced by any mainstream political group. In fact, since he believes that government controls grammar and is involved in mind controlling conspiracies, he’s just as likely to hate Republicans as he is Democrats.

Three years ago he met Rep. Giffords and asked her ‘what is government if words have no meaning?’ This suggests two things to me. First, Loughner has been a nutter for more than the last six months. He’s clearly been off in his crazy world of government mind control for three years. Second, it suggests to me that recent political debates have nothing to do with Loughner’s rampage. Three years ago we had a Republican President, if he believes in government mind control it isn’t just Giffords who is involved in the conspiracy. It would have to include conservatives.

The fact is, heated political debate and even political speech that includes violent imagery doesn’t create a situation where Federal House members are shot. The left wants conservatives to just shut up and so they’re going to use Saturday’s tragedy to try to force conservatives to self censor themselves. But the fact is, there’s no amount of self censoring that could have stopped Saturday’s shooting. Jared Loughner is crazy and was hellbent on killing Giffords.

By demanding conservatives censor themselves, the left is really signaling that they want us to shut up while they try to force socialism on the country. They want us to shut up when Obama tries to force through Cap & Trade via regulation. They want us to shut up while Obama tries to push death panels via regulation. They wanted us to shut up last year during the Obamacare debate. In short, the left wants conservatives to keep quiet while they abuse their power. If they can’t force the right to shut up through Federal agencies like the FCC, they’ll guilt conservatives into shutting up by accusing us of being responsible for a lone lunatic like Loughner. The left has politicized the Giffords shooting. These people on the left have no shame and no decency.

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